Penguin Classics

Chronicles the way of life of the beat generation as Dean Moriarty speeds across America.Author: Jack KerouacPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: June 01, 1999Number of Pages: 293...

German poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller?s famous text on art, politics, and society ?The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all the worse for him if he is at the same time its...

For the first time in Penguin Classics: Nietzsche?s accessible exploration of key ideas in his landmark Beyond Good and Evil?in a lucid new translation Friedrich Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of...

On The Good Life (Penguin Classics)Author: Marcus Tullius CiceroPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Sep 30, 1971Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner...

A reproduction of Kerouac's original 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road" offers insight into the writer's thematic vision and narrative voice as influenced by the American literary, musical, and...

One Flew Over The Cuckoo'S Nest - 9780141181226Author: Ken KeseyPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Dec 31, 2002Number of Pages: 312 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

MI6?s man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb?s Tales from...

Charles Dickens's last complete novel and a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its...

The Nobel Prize winner?s lyrical and disturbing portrait of love and the dark recesses of the human psyche A Penguin Classic A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn...

A NETFLIX BOOK CLUB PICK Nella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today. A New York Times Editors? Choice. Now a major...

Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation...

An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia?s most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its...

Petals Of BloodAuthor: Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, Ngugi Wa Thiong'OPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Feb 22, 2005Number of Pages: 432 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Ph?ú?¿Dre: ?â?ëDition Bilingue (Penguin Classics)Author: Jean RacinePublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Mar 01, 1992Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis...

Author: Marquis De Sade, Joachim NeugroschelPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Nov 01, 2006Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0143039016ISBN-13:...

*Now a six-part TV series starring Natalie Dormer, from Amazon Prime* A 50th-anniversary edition of the landmark novel about three ?gone girls? that inspired the acclaimed 1975 film, featuring a...

Author: Jorge Luis Borges, Efra??N Kristal, Suzanne Jill LevinePublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Mar 30, 2010Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A bilingual edition of writings by Latin America's finest baroque poet Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote her most famous prose work, La Respuesta a Sor Filotea, in 1691 in response to her...

Author: AristotlePublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: March 01, 1997Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0140446362ISBN-13: 9780140446364

One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685?1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism ? the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the...

Prometheus Bound And Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The PersiansAuthor: Aeschylus, Philip VellacottPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Aug 30,...

Author: Thomas D. HammPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Jan 25, 2011Number of Pages: 400 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0143106317ISBN-13: 9780143106319

R.U.R. (Rossum'S Universal Robots) (Penguin Classics)Author: Karel CapekPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Mar 30, 2004Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

One of Penguin Classics' most popular translations?now also in our elegant black spine dress Ryünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists?a modernist master whose short stories are marked...

Re-released with a deluxe French-flap graphic cover, a commemorative edition marking the twentieth anniversary of the author's death traces his contributions as a founding Black Panther and includes...

Move over, Holden Caulfield, and meet Marshall Field Finney, in the 30th anniversary edition of Right by My Side, by a celebrated chronicler of Black middle class life in the American Midwest A...

The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African...

In Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her family,...